Improvement in rotating engines



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Letters Paten-t No. 107 ,081, dated September 6, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROTATING- ENGINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all Iwhom it lnul-y concern Be it known that' I, DAVID SMITH Mossy;of Valdosta, in the county of Lowndes and State ot' Georgia, haveinvented a new and usei'ul Improvement inItotatingEngines; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescriptionthereof, which" will enable others skilled in the art to make and usethe same, reference being had 'to the accompanying drawing forming partof 'this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in that class ot"engines where'water, steam, or other elasticl tiuid acts continuouslyupon the wheel, thereby avoiding the use ot' a crank; and

It consists in arranging a series of adjustable buckets. ou a revolvingwheel, in combination with a suitably constructed chamber andpassage-way, as hereinai'ter more fully described.A l The accompanyingdrawing representsa vertical section of a wheel constructed and arrangedaccortiing to my invention.

A is adisk or-drum, securely fastened to a cent-ral shaft, B, whichrevolves on' journals in suit-able bearings, as indicated by the dottedlines ill the drawing.

`(l represents the buckets, ot' which there may be more or less innumber. l

These buckets C are each'connected to the wheel by one or more tongues,D, which are pivoted to the rim ot' the drum or wheel A, as seen in thedrawing.

The buckets are curved in form, so that theirinner surfaces tit on tothe circumference of the wheel, and form a border thereon, as seen, whenthey are not acted upon by the motive power employed.

Eis the chamber into which the steam or water is introduced from thepipe I".

G Ais the passage-way or channel. Each of the'buckets, being hung on oneor more pivot-s, is free to d rop by its own gravity as it passes downinto the chamber through throat H, or is forced down, where steam orother elastic tluitl isemployed,

,by the introduction of such fluid behind the outer sloping ends ot thebucket.

When the bucket opens, as seen in the' lower portion ofthe wheel, theyare made to tightly tit the channel G, so-that thejvater or steam cannotescape past them, thus causing the whole force to be exerted to revolvethe wheel.

. Power is conveyed from the wheel by means oi' a ference ot' the wheel,thereby greatly lessening the eounter-tiictioiml pressure.

2. 'I.`he steam or water-chest II E I", constructed ,and applied tothewheel, as and t'or the purpose specified.

D. S. MONEY.

IVt-nesses W. A. SMITH, JOHN W. BEATY.

